The Gonzaga of Mantua and Pisanello's Arthurian Frescoes

by Joanna Woods-Marsden

The unfinished frescoes by Antonio Pisanello in the Ducal Palace in Mantua have intrigued and puzzled art historians since their rediscovery in the 1960s. In the most extensive discussion in English of these important paintings, Joanna Woods-Marsden identifies the frescoes as a coherent cycle depicting an episode from the "prose Lancelot," a thirteenthy2Dcentury French romance. Dating the cycle c. 1447-48, she argues that it was commissioned by Lodovico...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691040486
• ISBN13: 9780691040486
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 2.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.9" x 10.3"